On Thursday, a Missouri jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $110 million to a Virginia woman, Lois Slemp, after she said her ovarian cancer developed after decades of using the company's talc-based products, Reuters reported.

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The lawsuit involved a talc supplier, but the jury said Johnson & Johnson was 99 percent at fault, the news agency reported.

The company plans to appeal and also release studies to show the safety of the company's baby powder products, according to the report.

According to the Food & Drug Administration, science literature going back to the 1960s has suggested a possible association between the use of powders containing talc and the incident of ovarian cancer.

The FDA also says that these "these studies have not conclusively demonstrated such a link, or if such a link existed, what risk factors might be involved."